September 2023
Raspberry Pis are back!
Finally! Like many others, I’ve been waiting on stock of Raspberry Pi 4’s to come back to start a new project I’ve been wanting to work on for some time, and a couple of weeks ago it finally happened. I picked up eight Pi 4’s and got to finalising the design. OK hold up, why? Great question before we get started, what’s the point? I’ve been wanting to expand the application I run in my homelab away from a single point of failure for some time, not only for better service availability (which let’s be honest is only for my benefit and nerd points) but also as a learning experience to start to understand the practicality behind these architectures, which I’ve wanted to do for some time.
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April 2023
Conserving power and compute.
HomeLabbing is great. I love HomeLabbing, it lets you totally have control over the data you generate, understand free and open source systems and do so without consequences (like breaking something important at work). I think it’s an invaluable tool, and helped me build the knowledge to land my job. How did I get into it? My HomeLab started as a simple Ubuntu box running a SAMBA share, on an old motherboard that would have gone to e-waste, with a crumby i3, 4GB of RAM, but it booted, and that’s just about all the specs you realistically need for a barebones Ubuntu Server install.
5 minutes
January 0001
Home servers, networking gear & rackmounts.
Servers Proxmox Hosts Intel NUC (NUC12WSKi5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) Chenbro RM13604 1U Rack Server 2x Intel Xeon E52690 V1 64GB DDR3 RAM (4x16GB) Pi Cluster 8x Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB) 8x Geekworm Heatsink Cases 8x Crucial P3 500GB M.2 NVMe SSDs 8x Sabrent M.2 SSD Enclosures File Server Intel i5 4690K 16GB DDR3 RAM (2x8GB) ASUS Z97-K LSI 9211-8i HBA 4x WD Red 8TB HDD LogicCase 4U 24x 3.5" Drive Bay Case Networking TP Link 24 Port Gigabit Switch (Layer 2) Rack, Mounts & Accessories StarTech 12U Open Frame Rack Mount StarTech 2U Cable Finger Duct StarTech 2U Server Rack Shelf OverPassing 1U Cat 6 Keystone Patch Panel LMS Data 6 Way PDU
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